{"id":512,"date":"2025-07-28T09:21:17","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:21:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/clearcutmedia.co.in\/?p=512"},"modified":"2025-07-28T09:21:17","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T09:21:17","slug":"air-pollution-tied-to-low-birth-weight-premature-babies-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/air-pollution-tied-to-low-birth-weight-premature-babies-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Pollution Tied to Low Birth Weight &amp; Premature Babies in India"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:14px\">Photo Credit: Internet<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:15px\"><strong>Clear Cut Health Desk<\/strong><br>New Delhi, UPDATED:\u00a0JULY 28, 2025 09:21 IST<br>Written By: <strong>Clear Cut Team<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">INDIA | July 3 India\u2019s newborns are under threat and air pollution may be the reason.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to NFHS (2019-21) data, 13% of babies are born prematurely and 17% with low birth weight. A joint study by IIT Delhi, IIPS Mumbai, and international researchers found that a 10 \u00b5g\/m\u00b3 rise in PM2.5 increases:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Premature birth risk by 12%<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Low birth weight risk by 5%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pollution-heavy states like UP, Bihar, Delhi, and Punjab are worst affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Internet Clear Cut Health DeskNew Delhi, UPDATED:\u00a0JULY 28, 2025 09:21 ISTWritten By: Clear Cut Team INDIA | July 3 India\u2019s newborns are under threat and air pollution may be the reason. According to NFHS (2019-21) data, 13% of babies are born prematurely and 17% with low birth weight. A joint study by IIT&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[],"post_template":[],"top_category":[],"class_list":["post-512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health","pmpro-has-access"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/512\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"post_template","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_template?post=512"},{"taxonomy":"top_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/clearcut.sakchinursinghome.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/top_category?post=512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}